What are You Looking For?

"What are you looking for?"

In John's Gospel, Jesus asks a couple of His disciples “What are you looking for?” How often I have asked myself this question and now I find, in prayer, Jesus asking me this very same question. Over the past few months He has asked me this question repeatedly and like the disciples of today’s Gospel I do not have a concrete answer either. How many of you could answer Jesus right away with a well thought out plan to your life? Do you know where you are going and what you are seeking? And… do you ever find what you are seeking?
In my life I’ve often taken time out of my life to “find myself” but I never do! I always, after much prayer and reflection find myself with more questions than answers about life. John Paul II in his encyclical letter, Faith and Reason, calls the journey to know oneself the same journey as one seeks to know God:

“God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves…”

As I reflect upon this I have come to realize that Jesus does not expect an answer to His query. He asks us what we are looking for in an effort to get us to think about our lives and faith journey. We will never find the answers we want on our own but it is the quest and journey to know ourselves and God that is of importance.
My journey to know myself and to know God begins with a simple question… What am I seeking… and thus the adventure begins! Won’t you join me?
God Bless, Holly Clark